Christ Carried to the Tomb is a 1645 ink by Rembrandt, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a group of people carrying a body wrapped in cloth. The scene is outdoors, with trees and rough ground around them. The lines are loose and scratchy, giving it a hurried, emotional feel. The artist used a technique that lets ink pile up in some lines, making them darker. This makes the figures and trees look almost three-dimensional. Next, look up etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how this was made.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
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